EXCLUSIVE: Forty-five-year-old telly fave snapped snogging TayTay Starzh, 22, at BBC wrap party
MARRIED telly favourite Zoe Ball has been caught kissing a man half her age behind husband Norman Cook’s back during a BBC wrap party.
The presenter, who fronts Strictly Come Dancing spin-off show It Takes Two, was pictured snogging boyband member TayTay Starzh while celebrating the end of the current series.
TayTay, 22, of rising British group Franklin Lake, didn’t realise who Zoe was when they met at Freedom Bar in Soho and only discovered her identity when he Googled her the following morning.
An eyewitness told The Sun: “Zoe seemed pretty out of it and looked to be having a great time.
“It definitely seemed like she’d had one too many and was very drunk.
All over each other ... TayTay told pals he snogged a woman 'old enough to be his mum'
“She and TayTay were all over each other. People were staring but she didn’t seem to care.”
Zoe, 45, alluded to her boozy night with her It Takes Two colleagues in a Twitter post, writing: “Ouch. ITT wrap party last night. Piecing together the crew’s drunken antics in Soho.”
The former Live and Kicking presenter briefly split with Norman in 2003 after a fling with his pal and fellow DJ Dan Peppe, but they later reconciled.
Earlier this year Zoe, who was the first woman to present the Radio 1 Breakfast Show and is the daughter of TV personality Johnny Ball, 77, said of her relationship: “It would take something pretty mammoth to rock us now.”
Boyband member TayTay told pals he snogged a woman “old enough to be his mum” when recalling the incident yesterday.
A friend said: “All he remembered was kissing an older blonde woman. The next day when he Googled her he was shocked.
“The name still didn’t ring a bell with him even though she’s one of the most recognizable faces on TV. He reckons it must be because he was too young when she was at the peak of her fame.
“But TayTay really isn’t the kind of guy to get embroiled in a marriage drama so he’s mortified.”
Following Zoe’s first cheating scandal, Norman quit booze and she dramatically cut down her alcohol intake, saying she now has just “one cocktail” on a girl’s night out and no beer or wine.
She admitted her previous affair to husband Norman after learning that it was set to be made public knowledge.
But the self-confessed alcoholic DJ took her back and explained at the time: “I still love her. If you love someone you’ll forgive them. I’ve spoken to her today and she is genuinely remorseful.
“She said, ‘I’m so, so sorry’. I still want her to come back as long as she promises she won’t see him again and not do this again.”
The couple live together with their children Woody, 15, and Nelly, five, in a beachfront property in Western Esplanade, Hove, and got wed at Babington House in Somerset in August 1999.
In 2009 Norman entered a rehab facility in Bournemouth to fight a “booze addiction” that he admitted he’d been battling for “some time”.
A spokeswoman for Zoe today declined to comment on the pictures or the status of her marriage to Norman.
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